Guide to the Wedding planner album, 1867-1868
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Cite as: Wedding planner, Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine
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Bowdoin College album appropriated as a wedding planner, listing numerous invited guests to a December 1867 Newburyport (Mass.) wedding and reception of an unnamed bride from Newburyport and groom from Portland, Me. Also included are lists of names of Portland callers to the couple{u2019}s Portland residence in January and February, 1868, and an inventory of wedding gifts. Guests named include Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Also includes an incomplete ms. draft of a play written in French entitled La position delicate.
- Newburyport (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
- Portland (Me.) -- Social life and customs.
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
- Weddings -- Planning.
- Weddings -- Massachusetts -- Newburyport.
- Marriage customs and rites -- Maine -- Portland.
Forms part of the Miscellaneous Manuscript collection in the Bowdoin College Special Collections & Archives.
Position delicate